Saturday morning I completed my initiation into city life. I got ready for the day, headed outside and discovered that my car had been broken into over night. The hooligan busted out the rear driver’s side window. There was tons of broken glass all over the back seat. They went through the glove box and…

I’ve been getting a lot of marketing emails lately from all sorts of places with holiday deals. Most of these emails are from places I like, that I’ve purchased something from in the past. At first it was cool, but now I’m tired of them. And in that spirit, I shamelessly ask you to check…

Last month I read this article, Artists Look Different, about the way an artist sees. It posits that an artist sees a photo or scene much differently from the way a non-artist will view the same photo or scene. An artist will scan the entire photo, while a non-artist will focus on the focal point…

Since I’ve been living in the Bay area (almost 2 years now) I haven’t felt any earthquakes. Today that has changed – in Berkeley there was a 3.4 quake! That’s not very big, but I most certainly felt it. It was as if someone had pushed my desk and chair, or like something large hit…

If not, take a moment to enjoy and appreciate the fact that you are well. I just got over a horrible case of the flu, and still have a bit of a cough. And I was thinking about how much it sucks to be sick, and how you never really think about it when you’re…

This is a very neat representation of Earth and the people on it, in a small, digestible format. I highly recommend you take a look at the miniature earth.

I moved back in 2004 (when I was still in Ohio) and due to a couple of complications, didn’t get registered in time for the election. So I had to do a provisional ballot in my new city. And just as I feared at the time, it didn’t get counted. Here’s an article on Rolling…